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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1870; 1871]

2 DocuMEj^T Xo. 33, [Session
to be paid to the Western Division of the Western jSTorth
Carolina Eailroad Company. 'No part of this money had been
paid, and though said Littleiield had represented to the nnder-signed
in June last, in Kew York, tliat he had arranged I'or
the pa3'ment of the sum of one hundred and tifty thousand dol-lars,
($150,000) and gave his checks therefor on the bank at
Ivnoxville, Tennessee.
On sending there it turned out to be false, and that the first
million of bonds issued in Florida, insteadof placing them with
S. W. Hopkins & Co. for sale, to pay the debts outstandings
and release the stock, tfcc, as provided for in the said provisional
agreement, he had placed under the control of one Houston to
secure some private debts of said Littlefield, as the undersigned
was informed.
It appeared that the other three miilions of bonds had been
placed with Hopkins S: Co., and they had sent them to the
branch of their house in London for sale; but it was made
known to the undersigned, tliat four hundred thousand dollars
of said bonds had been pledged to one of Georgia, to
secure the payment of a debt of said Littlefield for one hundred
and ten thousand dollars ($110,000) given for some steamboats,
and that he had been drawing largely on said bonds, and while
the undersigned and the treasurer of the company, and Judge
Henry, one of the connnissioners, were in New York seeking
money from said fund, the said Littlefield departed for London
under circumstances to leave no hope of realizing a dollar from
the sale of said bonds, if not looked after at an early day.
At*tho instance of General Eansom, R. R. Swepson advanced
a thousand dollars (§1000) in cuiTency as a payment on George
W. Swepson's mortgage- debt, to meet expenses of the trip, the
imdersigned returned from Baltimore at once, and on Wednes-day
llUh of July embarked for London, where he landed 27th
July, Saturday evening; and on Monday mornnig 2l)th M'ent to
the bu.sititss house of S. W. Hopkins & Co., JSTo. 58, okl Broad
etre'^t, and was informed that Gen. Littlefield and two mem-bers
of the firm had gone to the continent. Thereupon the

2 DocuMEj^T Xo. 33, [Session
to be paid to the Western Division of the Western jSTorth
Carolina Eailroad Company. 'No part of this money had been
paid, and though said Littleiield had represented to the nnder-signed
in June last, in Kew York, tliat he had arranged I'or
the pa3'ment of the sum of one hundred and tifty thousand dol-lars,
($150,000) and gave his checks therefor on the bank at
Ivnoxville, Tennessee.
On sending there it turned out to be false, and that the first
million of bonds issued in Florida, insteadof placing them with
S. W. Hopkins & Co. for sale, to pay the debts outstandings
and release the stock, tfcc, as provided for in the said provisional
agreement, he had placed under the control of one Houston to
secure some private debts of said Littlefield, as the undersigned
was informed.
It appeared that the other three miilions of bonds had been
placed with Hopkins S: Co., and they had sent them to the
branch of their house in London for sale; but it was made
known to the undersigned, tliat four hundred thousand dollars
of said bonds had been pledged to one of Georgia, to
secure the payment of a debt of said Littlefield for one hundred
and ten thousand dollars ($110,000) given for some steamboats,
and that he had been drawing largely on said bonds, and while
the undersigned and the treasurer of the company, and Judge
Henry, one of the connnissioners, were in New York seeking
money from said fund, the said Littlefield departed for London
under circumstances to leave no hope of realizing a dollar from
the sale of said bonds, if not looked after at an early day.
At*tho instance of General Eansom, R. R. Swepson advanced
a thousand dollars (§1000) in cuiTency as a payment on George
W. Swepson's mortgage- debt, to meet expenses of the trip, the
imdersigned returned from Baltimore at once, and on Wednes-day
llUh of July embarked for London, where he landed 27th
July, Saturday evening; and on Monday mornnig 2l)th M'ent to
the bu.sititss house of S. W. Hopkins & Co., JSTo. 58, okl Broad
etre'^t, and was informed that Gen. Littlefield and two mem-bers
of the firm had gone to the continent. Thereupon the